Dynamic waitlisted design for evaluating a randomized trial of evidence-based quality improvement of comprehensive women’s health care implementation in low-performing VA facilities [PDF]
Background Women’s Health Services (WHS) in the Veterans Health Administration (VA) has long partnered with VA researchers to evaluate how VA care is organized for women veterans.
Alison B. Hamilton +6 more
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Assessing fidelity to evidence-based quality improvement as an implementation strategy for patient-centered medical home transformation in the Veterans Health Administration [PDF]
Background Effective implementation strategies might facilitate patient-centered medical home (PCMH) uptake and spread by targeting barriers to change. Evidence-based quality improvement (EBQI) is a multi-faceted implementation strategy that is based on ...
Susan E. Stockdale +7 more
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Application of a nonrandomized stepped wedge design to evaluate an evidence-based quality improvement intervention: a proof of concept using simulated data on patient-centered medical homes [PDF]
Background Stepped wedge designs have gained recognition as a method for rigorously assessing implementation of evidence-based quality improvement interventions (QIIs) across multiple healthcare sites.
Alexis K. Huynh +3 more
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Long-term impact of evidence-based quality improvement for facilitating medical home implementation on primary care health professional morale [PDF]
Background Poor morale among primary care providers (PCPs) and staff can undermine the success of patient-centered care models such as the patient-centered medical home that rely on highly coordinated inter-professional care teams.
Lisa S. Meredith +6 more
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Sustainment, Sustainability, and Spread Study (SSaSSy): protocol for a study of factors that contribute to the sustainment, sustainability, and spread of practice changes introduced through an evidence-based quality-improvement intervention in Canadian nursing homes [PDF]
Background Implementation scientists and practitioners, alike, recognize the importance of sustaining practice change, however post-implementation studies of interventions are rare. This is a protocol for the Sustainment, Sustainability and Spread Study (
Whitney B. Berta +15 more
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Dental teams and their workplaces are among the most exposed to airborne and bloodborne infectious agents, and therefore at the forefront of pandemic-related changes to how dental care is organized and provided to patients.
Habib Benzian +3 more
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Objective Situation Awareness For Everyone (SAFE) is a quality improvement programme aiming to improve situation awareness in paediatric clinical teams.
Jessica Deighton +3 more
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A Reflection on Research, Theory, Evidence-based Practice, and Quality Improvement [PDF]
Recently, use of research, theory, evidence-based practice (EBP), and quality improvement (QI) has increased dramatically in the professional manuscripts and discourses of the health related literature.
Eesa Mohammadi
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Improving Evidence-Based Care in Cystic Fibrosis Through Quality Improvement [PDF]
To increase clinician adherence to prescribing guidelines for pulmonary medications in children with cystic fibrosis (CF).Quality improvement project with multiple time series design.The CF center at a tertiary care pediatric hospital in the United States.Children with CF who were eligible to receive oral azithromycin, nebulized dornase alfa, or ...
Gary L, McPhail +8 more
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Evaluation of literature searching and article selection skills of an evidence-based practice team
Background: An evidence-based practice (EBP) team at an academic medical center supports the development of evidence-based hospital policies and protocols via “Evidence Briefs.” An early career librarian was added to the EBP team to meet increased ...
Emily Paige Jones +2 more
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